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Sunday evening, Marione and I stumbled across a music special from Austin, Texas, that honored Johnny Cash. I think it was several years old, but that didn't matter. It featured a couple dozen well-known artists, such as Kris Kristopherson and Willie Nelson, singing the famous songs of Johnny Cash.

Marione agreed when I said, “It was fun being in the radio business when we got to play songs like that.” We were both in that business from the late 50's through 1989 – about 40 years.

I really did not appreciate some great privileges I had early in my radio career. I got to travel to WSM in Nashvi...